When Sun Ziming decided to send a group of interns to the United States to learn the advanced experience of Hollywood, Hong Kong Light and Shadow Group calculated the cost. On average, each student will spend $100,000 on living expenses for three years, and if you include training and the like, each student will spend no less than $100,000. In other words, Sun Ziming's investment in the light and shadow special effects company is only 500 million, but the amount spent on the nearly 1,000 interns is no less than 300 million dollars. This is why Sun Tzu Ming Lao said that after making movies in Hollywood for a few years, all the money earned was spent by Tim and them!

After spending so much money, if these interns leave the company to start their own business or change jobs after completing their studies, won't the company lose their wives and soldiers? How could someone as shrewd as Uncle Zeng not leave some behind?

Naturally, before those interns went to the United States to study, they signed an agreement with the Hangzhou notary office: after completing their studies, they must work in the company owned by Hong Kong Light and Shadow Group for ten years, and if they breach the contract, they will compensate Light and Shadow Group five times the liquidated damages.

Of course, when those interns signed the contract, they were absolutely willing, and they were definitely the lucky ones in the eyes of their classmates. In an era when the average monthly salary is only one or two thousand, it is absolutely lucky to be able to get an annual salary of 20,000 US dollars and study in the United States for free for three years!

It is only to blame for the weak concept of domestic law, and those selected science and engineering students from prestigious universities did not really take the original agreement seriously in the face of huge interests. I thought it was a domestic company, I could leave if I wanted to, stay if I wanted to, as long as I had the ability, I could find a good job anywhere! What's more, the new company is in Beiping, and the company in Hangzhou has the ability to go to the capital to fight a lawsuit?

This kind of thinking is not wrong, this is the environment in China, but in the face of huge interests, those job-hopping employees did not take into account that Sun Ziming is not only the owner of a film company, but also the head of a consortium and has a strong influence on local governments in China. Even for such a thing as building a private university, he can pry a hole from the central government and let the judicial system protect his interests in accordance with the law, what is the very difficult thing?

When ILM swallowed up the special effects business and signed all the cooperation agreements, there was a thunderbolt from the IPM (Beiping) Company - almost all of the company's Chinese employees received summons from the Intermediate People's Court of Haidian District, Beiping. Hong Kong Light and Shadow Group sued 668 employees of Industrial Light & Magic (Beiping) Branch in the name of breach of contract, demanding that each of them compensate Hong Kong Light and Shadow Group 1.6 million US dollars according to the original agreement.

Lucas, who was drinking coffee with his old friend Steve Spielberg, fainted when he heard his assistant's report.

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The facts of the whole case are clear, the evidence is indeed sufficient, and in the face of the agreement written in black and white, as well as the copies of various expenditures of the US side, the first reaction of the lawyer representing the Industrial Light and Magic (Beiping) Company is that this is an out-and-out trap, a trap for legal illiteracy!

However, when the lawyers asked the people involved for confirmation, there were only four words in their minds - Li Lingzhi was dizzy; There are only six words to be given - strive for out-of-court settlement!

All in all, this lawsuit is bound to lose! Even, the judge does not need to hear the defense lawyer's submission at all, and can directly make a judgment based on the evidence provided by the Hong Kong Light and Shadow Group.

The Intermediate People's Court of Haidian District, Beiping, which is responsible for hearing this case, has become famous, and the subject matter of the case is more than 1 billion US dollars, which is enough for the judges who handled this case to leave their names in history! At the same time, it also puts them under great pressure, even if they are judged in full accordance with the law, it is to uphold the dignity of the law, but it is also a one-time ruin of the beautiful lives of 668 young talents!

Don't say that the psychological pressure of the judges is greater than the mountain, even Chen Huimin, who is handling the matter in Beiping, feels unbearable when he sees the former employees of the company who are in panic all day long, this is 668 young people with a promising future!

Under the tacit understanding between the court and the plaintiff's lawyer, the trial of the case was temporarily delayed under the pretext that the agent Chen Huimin was ill, and the final decision was handed over to Sun Ziming. The defendant's lawyer urgently flew to Los Angeles to meet Sun Ziming on behalf of the confused former employees and win an out-of-court settlement, even if it was a free 10-year job for the company, it was better than carrying $1.6 million in compensation.

$1.6 million, even if it's interest every month, can make them want to kill themselves!

However, when Lawyer Zhong came to Beverly Hills and found Sun Ziming's house, he didn't even let him in. Across the iron fence, the gentle and beautiful Kayo Sato bowed deeply to Lawyer Zhong and said in a strange Mandarin: "Zhong Sang, Sun Sang asked me to tell you: repay grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue?" They are all adults, and they should all be responsible for their actions. ”

After conveying Sun Ziming's words, Kayo Sato bowed deeply again, and then turned to leave, leaving only a slender back.

The disappointed lawyer Zhong returned to Beiping, Chen Huimin was still ill, and the lawsuit had to be postponed again. However, such a big case can easily become news and become an international topic.

Standing in Sun Ziming's position, Yu Gong, he has the right to protect his rights and interests in accordance with the law; Privately, he changed the lives of hundreds of young people and gave them a better life, but they betrayed him, and he wanted justice, which is understandable.

Standing in the shoes of those employees who have broken the contract, 'Young people make mistakes, as long as they repent, God will forgive', this is what God Himself said.

Standing in the position of Industrial Light & Magic, it is normal business practice to spend money to hire employees. Even if those young people break the contract, it is not their legal responsibility.

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Lucas, who was unconscious, finally woke up, and when he finished caring about the progress of the matter, his heart immediately died.

The newly established branch can no longer become a help to the parent company, but has become a burden.

Those signed agreements, if not completed on time, are three times the liquidated damages enough to bankrupt Light and Magic. In order to meet the deadline, skilled VFX artists must be hired everywhere or outsourced to other VFX companies. However, either way, it will make people sit on the ground, and the company will not only not make a penny, but will lose hundreds of millions of dollars!

Hollywood is a cold Vanity Fair, and people here are impossible to be sympathetic, and some are just falling into the ground!

Hey, half a month ago, that little bastard became a joke all over Hollywood. In the blink of an eye, I switched roles with him!

Just as Lucas's expression was gloomy, the assistant who had just gone out knocked on the door again and came in, and whispered with a solemn expression: "Boss, that dog is here." ”

Dog?

"China Ming's dog!"

The assistant's whispered reminder reminded Lucas of who he was talking about, and just wanted to raise his hand to let the assistant blow away, but put his hand down again.